SHANGHAI (Dow Jones) – Jinchuan Group Ltd., China’s largest nickel and third largest copper producer, is investing the equivalent of about 4.4 billion USD in building a copper and nickel smelter in the city of Fangchenggang. (Photo: Aurubis)
should be started in September with the construction project, it says on the website of the city government. The plant will, according to the China Nonferrous Metals Network an annual capacity of 600,000 tonnes of copper, 100,000 tonnes of unwrought nickel and nickel have 20000-30000. Furthermore, should there copper products, nickel products and chemicals are manufactured. So far, the Jinchuan Group has an annual capacity to 400,000 tonnes of copper and 150,000 tonnes of nickel per year to produce.
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